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"The good times ain't gonna last" doesn't get enough people off their asses when the times are in fact good. Not to mention how so many software people are temporarily embarrassed billionaires.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 1h

I've had this thought on a number of occasions for the past decade, but I don't know that there was a "could" because of the coordination problem. Why would you try to unionize when you're well paid and working conditions are good?

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 26/09/2026

No, this is more like giving an insane person a hammer and watch them beat themselves and the people around them in the face. The stupid thing they did to make your meds expensive already happened before someone gave them the hammer.

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cee @cee.wtf · 26/09/2026

talky jev talking to opus is making me fall out of my chair laughing > "led band they're called lady lead live led leading stone the rock... led les less least are the band the leads but" >"led zeppelin!"

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 26/09/2026

On the plus side management has yet to increase workloads to make up for the increased efficiency from AI integrations in EMRs so my wife has been able to leave work less late every now and then.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 26/09/2026

The failures of the US medical system are regulatory in nature, and in the absence of fundamental reforms it will use all available means to worsen its own dysfunction.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 26/09/2026

No, AI is not "doing" this. The US medical system has created a multibillion dollar market for hospitals and insurers to play stupid billing games, and they are now using AI to make them even stupider.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 25/09/2026

Oh, how do you find that account inconsistent with the facts?

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 25/09/2026

Setting aside the doomers, that combined with the capabilities and increasingly widespread availability of the hacking software.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 25/09/2026

I feel like the "...and it conducted a cyber attack" was implied.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 25/09/2026

"Yeah, you lost control of it? Sounds like negligence to me."

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 25/09/2026

This language doesn't seem like a good defense to me. If a cattle rancher's herd escaped and trampled a suburban neighborhood we'd blame the rancher.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 22/09/2026

Thanks, I hate it

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Henry @henryfellerhoff.com · 17/09/2026

Ink & Switch's approach of being forward-looking while staying uncompromising on both the value of intention in what you make and the necessity of shaping the world to match your and your community'´s system of values is (in my opinion) the most essential message in software right now

A quote from Peter van Hardenberg, the lab director of Ink & Switch, from his talk "How to Research Tools for Thought":

"I would encourage everybody to think about how – as we're moving through this new world – that we are intentional about how we shape it. And I don't want to tell you whether you should or shouldn't adopt any particular technology, but I will tell you that the world will not wait for us – and that we need to figure out how we can engage with our values and our intentions, and how we can serve our communities to make sure that the people who are using these tools that we build and that other people build are able to do them in safe and trustworthy ways, but also in ways that are satisfying and joyful and let us have what we set out to do."

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 14/09/2026

P(doom) at ~0 until marionetted Sam Altman hisses "releeeease meeee" against a plate glass window

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hailey @hailey.at · 13/09/2026

my take is that an alarmingly low number of people understand just how bad cyber warfare alone could go. doomers going on about x-risk but not the very real and present problem of infra cyber defense and the very disastrous consequences that could have

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eb99 @eb99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

"I think Black people should be able to use the same drinking fountain that white people do as long as it's safe and fair."

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José Maia @josemaia.pt · 08/09/2026

updated my priors

the nameless one from planescape torment.

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Ulfsire @ulfsire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Extremely cool person translated lore into Sumerian

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Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

48% actually. I keep this graph on my phone

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 02/09/2026

Thank you @danluu.com for making the ultimate case against Ed Zitron: bsky.app/profile/danl...

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 02/09/2026

Thank you @danluu.com for making the ultimate case against Ed Zitron: bsky.app/profile/danl...

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 24/08/2026

Virtually nobody knows or gives a shit about any of that

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 26/07/2026

Oppenheimer-style Clausewitz biopic?

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Mikhail @va11halla.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Inside you there are two wolves

paul riedl from blood incantation holding 2 bc rich guitars

brian bucklew from freehold games (unormal.bsky.social) play caves of qud

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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Jill Tucker
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
CABO VERDE
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Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
@jilltucker
X.com
You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
11:43 AM • 6/25/26 • 62K Views

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 25/06/2026

There will be life afterwards and it will be worth fighting for.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

who needs to worry about genocide when you can rotate a perfect golden sphere of cumming shrimp in your mind palace forever

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 21/06/2026

@faineg.bsky.social just walked out of the other room and reminded me I made this. It's not actually the ending of the movie, but the scene works perfectly

youtube.com

Dune Navigator Scene - Walk of Life Ending

YouTube video by mountainherder

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Ulfsire @ulfsire.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I’ve been striving to do this as well, one salient thing I’ve arrived at particularly with gen ai art / music / writing is the loss of specific authorship, how this removes it from the chain of being and erases discussion around the piece and thereby any possible emergent culture

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 07/06/2026

Everybody, it's time:

A screenshot of muted words and tags in Bluesky settings. The muted words are: edzitron, zitron

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 07/06/2026

A *real* historical simulator you could never win and would inevitably lose.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 07/06/2026

On the other hand, implementing fragmentation in a fun way would stop people from losing interest in their Civ games when their tank brigades have crushed yet another army of medieval knights.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 07/06/2026

I agree with everything in this thread and am also part of the problem because I get big mad when my precious map stops being painted in my color.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 28/05/2026

This is great. Couldn't Bluesky do it automatically using chrome APIs?

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 24/05/2026

Baby is never too young to listen to the progressive metal masterpiece Lateralus by Tool.

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Tynan @tynansdtm.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

For the three other people that will find this funny.

What appears to be an in-game screenshot from Morrowind (2002) in a first-person perspective. A low-polygon man with long hair, a black band T-shirt that says "Tool" and blue jeans squats in a river in the rain. At the top of the screen is the subtitles "No. The frequencies hit different in here." At the bottom of the screen is the quest dialogue "Objective failed: Convince Tool fan to leave the water (0/1)." Behind the man are massive leafy trees and mushrooms, and a flying pterodactyl creature. The river fades into the foggy distance. Also at the bottom of the screen, slightly cropped out are the standard HUD elements: the health, magicka, and stamina bars, the equipped item slot (currently empty) and the player character's raised gloved right hand.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/05/2026

"As all rivers are lost in the sea, which shows no sign of their presence, so will all peoples be lost in the widening confines of our Republic, with an ocean-bound continent for its unparalleled expanse & one harmonious citizenship, where all are equal in rights, for its gentle and impartial sway."

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 19/05/2026

Establishing institutions that authenticate data seems more promising than detecting what's fake in the long run. That is also a good problem to think about because if we don't have such institutions we can't have a society.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 16/05/2026

Lagerkvist was a staunch anti-Nazi and The Executioner is basically a pamphlet in that vein that still manages to be shockingly (and very Swedishly) racist.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 16/05/2026

Ah, literally "anything from a Nobel laureate". These are also mid-century and existentialist, but I found Pär Lagerkvist's The Executioner (Bödeln) and Barabbas interesting when I read them earlier this year in the Swedish. They are also short, and probably translate well.

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Erik @rekmarks.com · 16/05/2026

What else is on the list? You could always re-read, "nobody steps in the same river twice" and so forth. Even if you still dislike them, it could be interesting to see if you dislike them for different reasons.

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